Its November. I know. I know. I can't believe it, either. I can't believe that Christmas is only 6 weeks away, (not to mention a certain baby boy's birthday and, my dear, E's 30th birthday.)
Its around this time of year that we normally load up every one and haul ourselves to a cheap photo studio, wait hours upon hours to get our picture taken, (I'm not kidding here. The weekends are a mad house there!) find one or two pictures we like, (which infuriates the photographer that we are only getting one or two poses.) wait for them to be printed, pick up the prints, and drive the 45 minutes home with everyone in tears. Then, we have to find a Christmas card we like, cut up all of the pictures, and stick them in.
In a gigantic effort to simplify Christmas this year (I'll have to write more on that later. We're cutting back on a lot of things!) we are forgoing that little escapade. Instead, we are doing our OWN Christmas cards. Well, sort of.
We spent about 20 minutes Sunday evening taking pictures out in our back yard with our camera and a tripod that my friend D lent us. A lot of the pictures were a bust, but a few turned out great! We are taking one or two of those photos and getting cards made through Shutterfly.
I'm not sure which card we'll get printed, but there are so many cute choices, don't you think?
Since I'm, hopefully, going to be getting 50 of them free for writing this blog post, I am thinking about ordering some of these. I love tags. Love them! These are super cute, (especially the brown one with gifts on it!) They seem pretty reasonably priced.
With I's 1st birthday and E's 30th birthday all mixed up with Christmas, we were thinking about doing a combined party/holiday celebration. There are all kinds of super cute invitation designs here. I think this one is kind of cute.
I'll have to post what we end up choosing for you all. I'm sure you are waiting on the edge of your seats....
2 comments:
Cute, cute, cute! I can't wait to see what you pick. :)
I got my Christmas cards and bday invites for L from Shutterfly.
You know we use SF for our website and we've been really happy with the prints, books, cards, notecards, etc. we've ordered from them as well; especially the ones we get for free or at a discounted price with free shipping. They run pretty decent deals. Just got Lydia's 6-9 month book and birthday invites for nearly half of what they normally are priced thanks to online sales and email coupons. :) Can't wait to see what you pick out! You have such a photogenic fam. :)
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